Liberation

The feeling of posting into the ether without anyone truly reading is wonderful indeed.

I started reading Jose Saramago's The Double on my trip to Costa Rica--one of the best books I have read in a long time. One quote from tonight's reading:

"According to popular wisdom, you can't have everything, and there's a good deal of truth in that, the balance of human lives is constantly swinging back and forth between what is gained and what is lost, the problem lies in the equally human impossibility of coming to an agreement on the relative merits of what should be lost and what should be gained, which is why the world is in the state it's in." (Saramago 103)